PONGIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pongidae mean? 

• PONGIDAE (noun)
  The noun PONGIDAE has 1 sense:

1. usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons

  Familiarity information: PONGIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PONGIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Pongidae; Pongidae

Hypernyms ("Pongidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Pongidae"):

great ape; pongid (any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae)

genus Pongo; Pongo (type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans)

genus Gorilla (gorillas)

genus Pan; Pan (chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids)

Holonyms ("Pongidae" is a member of...):

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

 Context examples 

Any haplorhine primate not belonging to the family Tarsiidae, Hylobatidae, Pongidae, or Hominidae; this does not correspond to any taxon.

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)